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W. EHRHARDT.

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NOSE BAG.

Patentd Sept. 20, 1892.

llVl/E/VT 0 BY .afielg ATTORNEY.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VVIIJLIAM EHRHARDT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO THE ECONOMIC FEED BAG COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

NOSE-BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,730, dated September 20, 1892.

Application filed October 26, 1891. Serial No. 409,82'7- (N model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM EHRHARDT, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Feed or Nose Bags for Animals, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical central section, and Fig. 2 is a plan view.

The object of my invention is to produce an improved nose-bag for holding oats, by the use of which an animal mayhave perfect ventilation and unobstructed respiration and all waste of grain will be prevented.

I 5 Referring to the letters on the drawings, A indicates an ordinary nose-bag having the usual small ventilating-apertures in its sides.

13 indicates the upper edge of the nose-bag, to which is secured a flexible diaphragm O of 2o open-work material, provided at its lower margin with an annular Water-tight spring-case D, containing, preferably, a metallic coiled spring X. The spring-case is secured to the inner margin of the diaphragm and com- 2 5 pletely incloses and protects the spring from moisture, perspiration, or saliva and prevents its rusting or deterioratin gin quality. Such a nose-bag will perfectly fit various-sized animale, and may be nearly filled with grain without interfering with the breathing of an animal and without anyliability to waste the grain. The use of a separate waterproof annular spring-case, in connection with the openwork diaphragm, renders the device durable by preserving the spring in perfect condition. 3 5

Heretofore nose-bags of this class have been seriously defective, although in diiferent nosebags some or all of the elements which I employ have been used, except the annular waterproof spring-case in connection with the reticulated 0r open-Work diaphragm.

What I claim is- In a nose-bag for animals, the combination, with the bag, of a flexible diaphragm 0, composed of open-work and secured to the upper 5 margin of the bag, an annular water-tight spring-case D, secured around the inner margin of the diaphragm, and a spring X within said case, substantially as set forth.

WILLIAM EHRIIARDT.

Witnesses:

H. J. SMITH, R. C. DAVIS, Y O. A. DOLAN. 

